Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

Sometimes the world just tells you your cat is here.

A norm that restrains only one side really is not a norm – it is a trap.

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

This really is a full service blog.

Second rate reporter says what?

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Museums are not America’s attic for its racist shit.

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

A fool as well as an oath-breaker.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

Speaker Mike Johnson is a vile traitor to the House and the Constitution.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

The unpunished coup was a training exercise.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

Trumpflation is an intolerable hardship for every American, and it’s Trump’s fault.

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

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  2. 2.

    West of the Cascades

    Go U Northwestern!! Wildcats over Illinis in the Friendly Confines. Half-court football!!

  11. 11.

    Scott P.

    I had a funny dream last night that all of you had somehow gotten access to post on the front page, and in your collective wisdom decided to do nothing else but make Tunch fat jokes.

    Great, who spilled the beans on our Christmas surprise?

  13. 13.

    lamh32

    I’m guessing there’s not much love for “the barracuda” in the Bush family!

    B Bush: Palin Should Stay Put

    Alaskan gets tart love from FFLOTUS during Larry King Live interview. Barbara Bush: “I sat next to her once. Thought she was beautiful. And she’s very happy in Alaska, and I hope she’ll stay there.”

  15. 15.

    lamh32

    Morning all,

    Sadly, I really only watch one college “bowl” game a year, and that’s the Bayou Classic (It’s a “Black thing”…actually, more of an HBCU thing really), so this weekend was shaping up to be a bummer, but then VH1 decided to show Dirty Dancing, my favoredest (pronounced like my lil nephew) movie almost evah. So the weekend is starting to look up!

    Fun fact, Kenny Ortega the choreographer for much of the original Dirty Dancing movie was also the director/choreographer for Michael Jackson’s “This Is It” Tour and MJ memorial, and for the 3 decent into madness that was the “High School Musical” trilogy!

    The only sad, is that Patrick Swazye is of course no longer with us.

  16. 16.

    geg6

    I can’t be bothered with college football when I have a true dilemma on my hands and can’t count on BJ to help, based on my request for comments on the propriety of showing cleavage at my John’s client’s party tonight. I have made the executive decision that the cleavage is fine, but now can’t decide which pencil skirt to wear, the shorter but conservative one or the longer one with the high slit.

    If you want a good post about our political situation as it stands today, I must recommend Steve Benen’s truth-telling post regarding the GOP’s motives. It is, sadly, so true that no one with a megaphone will ever say it, but nice to see that not everyone chooses to ignore the elephant in the room, so to speak.

  18. 18.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @geg6: Send me pics in all the various outfits and I will choose: jack dott jackson zero five one two att gmail dott com.

  19. 19.

    Maody

    Mao Mao is more beautiful and almost as fat as Tunch, but maybe not as big. Re your dream, you need some images man. I have dreams about circles of acrobats, bears and flying people in tutus – the stuff of paintings & poems.

    And also, too, go NCSU!, no go Tarheels!, no, go Wolfpack! Maybe more pro agents will stop by to say howdy and play Let’s Make a Deal.

  21. 21.

    burnspbesq

    My team did suck this year (first losing season in almost 20 years), but it’s mercifully over and our hockey team is off to the best start since it moved up to Division 1.

    And now college basketball has started, and Duke is drinking everyone’s milkshakes and slow-dancing with their dates. All is well. Looking forward to seeing them against Oregon in Portland next weekend. And spouse has somehow secured Final Four tickets.

  23. 23.

    burnspbesq

    @Taylormattd:

    I’d like to leave a complaint about the commenters with the ombudsman.

    I think the ombudsman is going to recommend a free-market solution: you know who you think is an asshole, so just scroll past their comments.

  24. 24.

    Fuzz

    You know who sucks? The Big East, omfg is that conference bad. They’re possibly going to send an unranked team into a BCS game.

  28. 28.

    RedKitten

    @geg6:

    I have made the executive decision that the cleavage is fine, but now can’t decide which pencil skirt to wear, the shorter but conservative one or the longer one with the high slit.

    The general rule of thumb is that showing over 40% of your skin crosses the line from sexy to skanky. If it’s a work thing, adjust accordingly. How short is the conservative pencil skirt? I’m thinking that as long as it’s no more than an inch or two above the knee, that’s your better bet. The skirt with the slit will draw attention to your legs, while the cleavage-y top is drawing attention to your breasts, and it’s just too much of too much, you know?

    And where you’re going a bit sexified with the clothes, keep it demure with the accessories, makeup and hair. This is not a time for big hair and red lipstick. A simple, sleek hairdo, sparkling (but not jangling) jewelry, and perhaps a slightly smoky brown shadow on the eye and a slightly glossy nude lip?

  29. 29.

    burnspbesq

    The only thing worth saying about Tarholes vs. Wuffies was said by the Duke of Verona in Act 5 of Romeo and Juliet.

  30. 30.

    Evolved Deep Southerner

    Man, is that Northwestern/Illinois-at-Wrigley-Field thing going over like a fart in church, or what?

    I could give a tinker’s damn who wins, but I’ve got to watch that game just to see how that whole switching-over-like-the-end-of-a-quarter-at-the-end-of-every-series thing works.

    Word to the defensive secondaries: If you intercept it and start running back to the other end zone, pull up at about the 10. Six-point INTS are nice, but be wise and save yourselves.

    Otherwise, expect a class action lawsuit from everybody who bought a ticket on the other side of the 50 toward that dead end zone. What a gyp!

  31. 31.

    duquesne_pdx

    /delurk

    Tunch isn’t fat. It’s just that your floor joists are in sorry shape.

    Go Ducks! (I come by it honestly: 22 years in Oregon will do that to you)

    /relurk

  32. 32.

    BeccaM

    @geg6: Cleavage or leg, pick one. Don’t give the male brain two things to stare at other than your face or they tend to explode.

  34. 34.

    Mako

    I don’t understand, but here’s a picture of a cat with a furry white beanbag chair draped seductively over its entire body.

  35. 35.

    You Don't Say

    @geg6: No cleavage, long skirt with slit.

    Yes, Benen’s post was all too accurate. But the GOP will scream ‘small businesses!’ no matter what hypocrisy they are confronted with.

  36. 36.

    S. cerevisiae

    After a promising start the Beavers have fallen apart lately, I just hope they can beat the Ducks in the civil war and ruin their undefeated season (tall order, I know).

    But my UMD Bulldogs are number one! Get the sweep in Madison tonight!

  37. 37.

    nalbar

    Tunch is so fat that when he auditioned for a part in Raiders of the Lost Ark he got the part of the rolling rock.

    nalbar

  39. 39.

    Mister Papercut

    I missed the beginning of the shenanigans yesterday, so by the time I got caught up, I saw myself out. No desire to partake in Internet Dramaz on a Friday night.

    Though I hope I’m not too late to get in on the Tunch fat jokes, also too.

  46. 46.

    henqiguai

    @BeccaM (#32): Yeah, now I’m just goofing around; but

    Don’t give the male brain two things to stare at other than your face or they tend to explode.

    Hey ! But I’d go more with the admonition of going somewhat conservative. Never, ever, give the bastards a lever; in this case, leverage into your partner. Anything beyond conservative and it will be spun into slutty for some future consideration. Or am I channeling too much of my own corporate political wars experiences into this thing ?

  48. 48.

    Wilson Heath

    Given that the day after Thanksgiving is a slow news day apart from whatever shopping-related violence, I suggest all front-pagers do Fat Joke Friday. It’s nice to make dreams come true.

    (Except my dreams. I had a nightmare that the TV was playing the Palin reality [sic] show and I was unable to change the channel. Really. Cold sweat.)

  50. 50.

    burnspbesq

    A strange thing is happening in Atlanta. Duke is beating Georgia Tech. In football. At least for now.

  51. 51.

    D-Chance.

    Your team sucks and your cheerleaders are ugly.

    Hey, now… my team was ugly and the cheerleaders sucked.

    God, I loved college.

  52. 52.

    JCT

    Go Bears! Sigh. Lousy year for us.

    Cal ’84

    And yes I was in the stands for The Play. We made John Elway cry!

  54. 54.

    shortstop

    Good to see the blog has not been reduced to smoking ruins.

    Guy, you were the only one who ever worried that it would be. You’ve got to stop letting us push your buttons like that. Have another Hungry Man and ask Tunch to scratch the spot on your back that you can’t reach because of your shoulder.

  55. 55.

    gwangung

    @JCT:

    And yes I was in the stands for The Play. We made John Elway cry!

    BOOOOOOOOO!

    (On the other hand, I consider Cal to be the gold standard in rivals. Only Cal could come up with something like that to win a rivalry game).

    BTW. 44-0.

  56. 56.

    JCT

    @gwangung: Yes, and I suppose that today they are going to make me cry.

    Yikes, what a shellacking.

    Really, all of my favorite sports teams have been awful this year. Cal sucking is just icing on the cake.

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